Hi Jonathan, >-----Original Message----- >From: Alexander Aristov [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:37 AM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: Restarting Tomcat after a crawl. > >Hi > >Which Nutch version are you using? If you use old Nutch which might work >stand-along then yes, you need to restart Tomcat in order to initialize >new >index otherwise some functionality will not work. > >But if you are using a current version and use solr as indexer then you >don't need to restart Tomcat. > >For old Nutch I wrote code (in NutchBean) which reinitialized index and >eliminated necessity of restarting but it was a year ago.
Working code based on Alexander's idea can be found here: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/arch/ See arch.jsp. If using OpenSearch interface, OpenSearchServlet should also be modified. See Arch OpenSearchServlet for example. > >Best Regards >Alexander Aristov > > >On 27 January 2011 21:29, Jonathan Oulds <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Hello there, >> >> This is my first foray into managing a search engine so please bear >with >> me. I am trying to index all our in house documentation that we >generate >> during development. I am trying Nutch on an Ubuntu server using >Tomcat to >> serve the results. >> >> In the process of building our indexes I have noticed that I need to >> restart Tomcat after a crawl for it to properly respond to search >queries. >> Is this the expected behaviour? >> >> Jonathan. >> >>
